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1 How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?

2 How long must I take

counsel in my soul
and have sorrow in my heart all the day?
How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

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3 Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;
light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,

4 lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him,”

lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.

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5 But I have trusted in your steadfast love;
my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.

6 I will sing to the Lord,
because he has dealt bountifully with me.

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Write below: What has loss felt like for you this past year? What are you struggling with as you look inward or outward?

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Write below: what do you want to ask God for in this time?

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Write below: How can you acknowledge God’s past work in your life? What about God are you clinging to?

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How long, O Lord, will I feel so unsettled? That things do not have simple conclusions or clear answers.

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How long will it take
for racial reconciliation
to be complete?

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How could you let people of power take advantage of those that are disenfranchised, the poor, the weak?

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How long, O Lord, will you continue to allow ignorance, blatant racism, and the misinterpretation and misrepresentation of the Bible last?

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How long, O Lord, will I feel so frustrated with you, the world, myself?
Although I know you are just, I feel cheated or that this is unfair.

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How long will the government continue to be incompetent in saving lives and creating effective legislation?

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How long will I continue to feel lonely for?

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How long will it be until
I have a genuine relationship
with my mom?

To be able to see eye to eye despite cultural and environmental differences?

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How long will it take to return to a community that can gather together in person?

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How long must our songs of praise be sung in our own rooms?

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How long will it be until we can travel for school, for extended family, for leisure?

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How long will it take for some to realize their privilege? For the privileged to use their money wisely?

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Consider and answer me, give our governments wisdom to act according to wise teaching and knowledge.

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Bring us to the bridge, O Lord;
show us how to love one another
while still loving ourselves

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Raise up your people to be a voice for those who do not have a voice.

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Consider and answer me, O Lord, be present and overpower in the hearts of those full of hatred

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Slow down what is happening around me and help me heal

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Consider and answer me, provide me with a sense of community even with physical distance.

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How long will I feel unsafe walking on the street?

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Consider and answer me, my God, give the privileged (students especially) the ability to realize that their peers did not start from the same level. Lord, give them to wisdom to see and empathize

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Show us that you are with us, Lord. Give us the community that we yearn.

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Consider and answer me, that I may find genuine joy in serving you rather than only feeling obligated to

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Consider and answer me, that you would open my eyes to what you are doing in my life and in the lives of others. Or just what you're doing in general.

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You have continued to care and provide for me even when I have strayed so far away from you.

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I have seen your plans unfold in my life in the past and how it has benefitted me even if I didn't know it then.

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Lord, you have graced me with your blessings at the most unexpected times and your everlasting presence and unconditional love have been a blanket of comfort these past few months.

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During my most anxious time, you brought me stillness.

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But I have trusted in your steadfast love, you have allowed me to be in community with those unexpected.

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But I have trusted in your steadfast love, you continue to show me grace and love.

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But I have trusted in your steadfast love, you provide for me.

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But I have trusted in your plan, You have always delivered beyond my wildest imaginations.

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Lord, you have shown time and time again that you make all things new.

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I trust in your love, in the way you love us, the ways you want us to love each other.

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But I have blindly trusted that you will be presented and you have revealed time and time again that you indeed are working even when I'm not looking for you